Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2018/1806 - a visa is required
The other half of the same Regulation. Nationals of the states in Annex I must hold a visa to cross the external border of a member state, and the Regulation offers no individual route out of the list: article 1 says the lists are built from illegal immigration, public policy and security, economic benefit, external relations, regional coherence and reciprocity, all of which are facts about countries.
**Nine states of this corpus are on it**: Belize, Bolivia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica and Suriname. Their neighbours are not, which makes this the sharpest demonstration in the corpus of the thing the site exists to show - two people with the same plans and different passports get different answers before anything else about them is considered.
The list governs every Schengen state and is recorded once for all of them.
Where it actually bites
Membership is one thing and what a destination does with it is another. These are the countries covered here that treat these nationalities differently, and on which question.
Spain- Visiting as a tourist · A Visa Is Required, and Nothing About You Changes That
- consolidatesRegulation (EU) 2018/1806 listing the third countries whose nationals must be in possession of visas when crossing the external borders and those whose nationals are exempt from that requirement, consolidated version
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